In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant...

literature. Purple prose – is prose that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself. Prose is divided...

Purple is a French fashion, art and culture magazine founded in 1992. In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction...

usage, although such passages are usually incongruous. By extension, purple prose is lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or otherwise overwrought. In philosophy...

Steelover with Rudy Lenners (known from German rockband (the) Scorpions). In 1999 she was the lead singer in Brussels band Purple Prose. Vaya con Dios v t e...

co-founded Purple Prose magazine. In the introduction of Purple Anthology, Zahm shares why he chose to create Purple Prose: "We launched Purple Prose in the...

Purple is also the color of the Engineering Corp in the British Military. Purple prose refers to pretentious or overly embellished writing. For example, a paragraph...

example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose. The status of the sentence as an archetype for bad writing comes from...

subcategories, such as detective fiction, romance novels, Western novels, and purple prose. Sentences that are notable but not quite bad enough to merit the Grand...

intended audience Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow...